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A Jew warned her that she might have to escape America someday

JL;DR SUMMARY Sofia Ali-Khan, a Pakistani American human rights lawyer, discusses her memoir 'A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America,' which intertwines her personal experiences with historical analysis of racial injustices in the U.S. Inspired by a Jewish mentor's advice to maintain a valid passport due to rising anti-Muslim sentiments, Ali-Khan relocated her family to Canada following the 2017 "Muslim ban." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Trump AdministrationHuman RightsImmigrationSettler ColonialismMuslim Jewish RelationsAnti Muslim BigotryRacism In AmericaSofia Ali KhanA Good Country

Places mentioned

Princeton, New Jersey, United States
"From the forced repatriation to Liberia of formerly enslaved Black people in Princeton, New Jersey, to the stolen lands of the Lenape in Pennsylvania, to the Native and Black rebellions in Florida and beyond, each chapter reveals with an activists outrageous precision the ways in which the origin myths of the United States as a pluralistic project collapse under scrutiny."
Canada
"In 2017, the same year that the Trump administration implemented the now infamous executive order 13769 better known as the Muslim ban Ali-Khan moved with her husband and children to Canada."
Mexico
"Sheerly Avni is a writer and editor living in Mexico."
New Zealand
"When we look around the planet at its several settler colonial projects, we can ask, within a modern human rights framework, what are our options? There are places like New Zealand, which has decided to take the position: we are now bicultural, which means we will represent and protect the interests and the cultures and the identities of both Maori people and European people."

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